This is how we do it

This is how we do it…

I am a 61 year old wife and mother of five grown children.  I love to cook but life’s challenges keep me out of the kitchen many days.  Crafting is a love of mine ingrained into my soul by my mother and grandmother, my father as well,  and I continue to do what I can from the confines of my health.  With both Fibromyalgia and Sjogren’s Disease, along with so much arthritis, I should be known as Arthur, I plug along day to day.  Well hour to hour, minute to minute.  You never know what the next minute will bring.  Currently, my craft of choice is crochet.  My close companion is my “bag of tricks” and it goes with me wherever I roam.

Honoring those around me…

I am so very fortunate to have a husband of 44 years who stays 100% with me through thick and thin.  Quite literally.  He loves me unconditionally as I do him.  For those who wonder, the key to a long lasting marriage has many notches, but I think the most important notches are honesty and giving 110% to each other.  Marriage is NOT 50/50.  It most certainly is 100/100 or more. 

Papa Sage and I have five grown children.  They are not at all alike, yet they are so much alike, it’s easy to know at a glance they are siblings and are our children.  They have all taken different branches down life’s path and we are extremely proud of each and every one.  Our children have blessed us with a quiver full of beautiful grandchildren and we love each one so much.  It’s such a blessing being a part of the next generation’s growing during their childhood and on through to their burst into the adult person their experiences lead them to. 

What you will find here…

My old blogs have been laid to rest.  They just don’t seem appropriate for now.  If you happen by them, much of the information and ideas you find will be useful in our current world and economy.  Some won’t.  Take each thing you find and weigh it’s importance for you.  Please don’t take it as life’s guideline.  

The information you find in this blog will be my life as it is today.  I blog as I live.  Today, you would find me unable to do much at all nursing a very hurt ankle.  Still I find much I can accomplish.  You would be surprised.  I think it all comes from things my mother instilled in my brain.  Things like never waste a step.  Make it count.  And what a valuable lesson that was.  You may find recipes.  They won’t be something untried.  I promise now that whatever you find cooking on my blog also was cooked at my house.  You may find ideas for gifts.  You may find links to a crochet pattern I love.  What I consider the most important thing you will find is how someone like me, who is handicapped and unable to do so many things, can do so much. 

What I will find for myself here is the acknowledgement that I do matter.  I must matter.  And I can go on.